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>> captured, a convicted in indian and murderer in cook county a dangerous mistake. we are live up set the criminal courts building with how this happened. an embarrassing situation a matter how happened at the cook county sheriff's office this is a dangerous guy a convicted killer who was not supposed to be released from a maximum-security prison in indiana until 20199 at the very earliest and he is free tonight and chicagoin chicago tonight, set
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free by a dangerous mistake. a native of gary indiana convicted of murder in 2002 a crime committed in indianapolis picked up in 2002 and had been serving his time in that state until being shipped here already on two drug charges. they were dismissed and when they were instead of being returned to indiana to serve the rest of his 60 your sentence for murder cook county officials simply when he walked away from the cook county jail. six months away.
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>> his earliest possible release date from prison is 2029, i cannot answer why he was released in the chicago area i don't know all i know is that he was released from jail without being returned to indiana if they do spot him contact your nearest law enforcement agency do not approach him. if you see this guy pick up the phone and dial 911. he has a very distinctive tattoo on the right side of his neck that says nicole officials are at a loss as to how this could happen right now they're not telling us much. they launched an investigation into how this happened live at the cook county
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lockup. chicago is deploying 300 officers to the streets this comes as january's homicide rate tops 40 we have more on this crime fighting tactic. they have redeployed more than 1000 officers. he says it is just a political ploy while crime researchers say that there's evidence that the crime is one of many that can be made to reduce violence over time. all sides agree that our homicide rate is tragic and a natural embarrassment. in response the number of chicago police officers on patrol beginning
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this weekend cox currently on do you will be reassigned to the beat it includes 60 officers into a total of 200 will be working the streets by the end of march. this is continuing that effort and it's going to continue here. civilians will be taking over the officers administrative duty after the most violent start to the year in more than one decade. this year's homicide rate is 20% higher than last year in which 506 were killed. i'm not going to ask the taxpayers for additional resources until the entire team have called for the geography he calls the plan policing be a press confervia press
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conference. you were going to hold 200 people that are very skilled out of their job and put civilians went really they may have no clue. they're doing really a lot of sensible things it's time to do things that makes sense from an evidence based perspective. he says that strict gun laws here are not too helpful if they are different across state lines and crimes are not prosecuted severely. all of the things we do it is to say that this is a
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really high priority in law enforcement. pendleton was in exactly the right place at exactly the right time and that's why her murder is so to speak, unacceptable. a fund- raiser taken place tonight for the family of the 15 year-old who has become the national symbol of gun violence in chicago there is a reward for the killer now. as you mentioned pendleton's death has really got the attention of the entire nation. they are grieving it was a fund-raiser for the entire pendleton family. it really hurt me. i could take
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back to the time that i grew up it is something that needs to stop. the tragic loss of such a vibrant life has dealt not only the pendleton family but their friends of course from western illinois univ. they came here for support tonight to help pitch in for a grieving family caught in the middle of gun violence plaguing our city. tonight one family's loss and the warmth of a hog from some dear friends. my daughter touched so many people. we all went to school together. there
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people but i haven't heard from in years, over 20 years. a child that has to go through the trauma mentally and physically. you need to take responsibility. and if anyone knows who this person is they should turn them in. her 17 year-old son was near her when she was killed on tuesday, she says that she wants to see the person stand up and on up for what he has done. now up to $24,000 in all. they're hoping that the money will make a difference in finding the killer. 300 people without jobs
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after an eight alarm fire its factory in burlington wisconsin one of the town's biggest employers the mayor volleying to help rebuild after yesterday's fire the cause is still under investigation. more than 40 vehicles were involved in a pile up on i 70 near indianapolis one of the tractor trailers was transporting elephants. at least 12 people were injured, two of them seriously it looks like maybe freezing snow caused a major part of this pile up. subzero temperatures cutting through the area as we speak it
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was 60 degrees above zero just a few days ago. tom skilling is in the weather center with more on this deepfreeze we are 60 degrees colder in parts of the area then we were on tuesday temperatures in the suburbs down to 1 above 0 we have not only cold weather on the way tonight but we have snow coming. starting tomorrow night and over the weekend will have a forecast on how long this snow sticks around. tearful and miserably shaken and why video gambling laws left these people in the cold. brutally beaten and left
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in the cold to die. nine years ago
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tonight a wisconsin woman was in the midst of a horrifying experience she found herself fighting to live after being stuffed inside of a garbage can she was bleeding, freezing and left to die but almost one decade later her story of survival is beginning to inspire this attack happened and kidnapping on a saturday morning she was going to pick up her two little girls and she walked into a set up, a warning that this story contains violent and graphic content. on january 31st of 2000... the day of our divorce when we walked out of the court room he was crying and i remember looking at him
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thinking why is he crying? he hates me he is so horrible to me and i remember thinking you were going to regret this. she describes the ex-marine and that she married as a longtime friend, fun-loving, family oriented but he was also controlling the first time that he hair was on their honeymoon. >> a few times. and i will never forget the first thing he said was you were bought and paid for. >> her toddler let her know that it was time to go. i looked at her and i thought this is not what i want for my kids. she went to women shelter and filed for divorce and remarriage, five years went by and she moved on the david larsen did not. the
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girls are hiding they want you to come in and find them. when i walked in on was hit on the head with a baseball bat and he was saying things like you always said i was abusing you. >> the first blow to her head was just the beginning of a 26 hour nightmare. duct tape, a baseball bat drifting in and out of consciousness she remembers him swinging the wooden bat 15-20 times he duck taped her hands feet into mouth and let the torture began. he's letting me in this garbage can headfirst i wiggled around so i went and feetfirst so that probably saved my life right there. she rolled the plastic container into the yard and started filling it with snow as
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he loaded her into the truck bed and went to get the girls inside teri told herself i am going to die today. but larsen made a critical mistake terry still has her cellphone. the dispatcher said are you having trouble breathing? i just kept saying the address. by the time i heard this quad sirens we were starting to move and they were going to his house and we were moving down the alley. police found signs of struggle and a neighbor saw the flashing lights and called terris house they told her new husband nick that they saw larsen towaway per camry nick knew right away that she was in trouble the phone rang again
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this time it was teri. it was a very difficult phone call. i thought that would be the last time i talked to her alive. they learned the night before the she was pregnant and now she was in the back of a moving pickup truck at the mercy of her ex- husband worried about her girls they were in the truck's cab with their mother in the back as he drove them to a baby sitter. they will turn into his spacey and cover the can with heavy boxes at that point she says houdini could have broken free. >> i am 5 ft. 8 i am in this garbage can and i am barefoot and remember my seat being so freezing and i was trying to get
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my hands to cut my feet and i could get my hands down there, i couldn't reach so i had to just sit there and there was nothing i could do. and amber a lawyer for the girls was issued in wisconsin and illinois. they are arrested him at work and in his wallet discovered a business card for a storage locker not in his home state of wisconsin but illinois, one call from detectives told them that larsen had been there the day before. her skull was crushed and her eyes were swollen shut suffering from severe frostbite and her body temperature had dropped to life-threatening 74 degrees doctors said that she had one hour left to live. 11 months
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later on their wedding anniversary they talked to reporters. >> dying is not an option because my girls need me. i felt great relief when i heard the paramedics. she has a wonderful spirit and she will recover. she has lost all of her toes, unable to walk but was all smiles. i thought thank god i am here for my kids, thank god my kids are ok. the girls are in high school and they have a five year-old son. since it happened so early in our marriage we were able to have a normal marriage but we have grown together finding a new normal in our lives. she believes that she has saved lives and made others leave happier lives. i have people who recognize who i am some people will cry or told me
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and i tell them don't cry now things are great now. david larsen is serving a life prison sentence and a host teri over $3 million, she knows she will never see that money but she leaves a message you can do this to somebody and not pay she said larsen has never showed any remorse and he hasn't asked for it you cannot forgive someone if they don't ask for forgiveness she said she is certain that given the opportunity larsen would try to killer again. an oil company in mexico city killed more than one dozen people. are youwhere you are right or wrong? playing
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defense, president barack obama picked to run for the defense department it's a rough treatment during confirmation hearing and beyonce singing for the first time since she lip
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the executive offices of the mexico oil giant and killed a dozen people and injured many others.
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the tallest building in mexico city witnesses said they could hear people screaming and pieces of wall falling no word on what caused it yet last september the company had an explosion at a gas plant near the texas border that killed six people and verbal combat between two former vietnam veterans. were we right oryou right or wrong? that is a pretty straightforward question you can answer whether or not you were right or wrong and then you may elaborate. he allegedly questioned the use of the military surge republicans are not getting much support from his own party most democrats say that his record as a former enlisted man would be a plus it would be a positive
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message for our soldiers, sailors and airmen and marines in harm's way all around the world to know that one of their own holds the highest office in the department of defense and that he has bareback says his goal would be the first vietnam veteran to serve as secretary of defense dangerously cold temperatures tonight how long that frigid air will stick around guess who's coming up in [ washer and dryer sounds ] for the things you can't wash, freshen them with febreze. ♪ ♪ because febreze doesn't just cover up odors... it penetrates deep
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it is very cold outside a couple of thoughts, it hasn't been very snowy this month. linda valentine send this along and said that she titles this waiting for warmer days which is appropriate no wonder she is cold. sheldon has been busy out there in northwest illinois. look at the prison like a ray of
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colors tonight the close the books on january at 12 midnight and even though precipitation overall is way above normal this is the least snowy january in 12 years. this is the winter's second coldest night subzero temperatures away from the immediate wake into down timedowntown. still advisory's even in the central appalachians we are 13 hours into what will be a 37 hour consecutive draft of
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subzero wind chills. the win shells are abominable. we could have 20 below zero wind chills tomorrow morning. it gives you an idea of where the temperatures are going. these
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are current temperatures and here is how much they are below with we are approaching 60 degrees colder in many locations that river for late april level one that we have on tuesday the heart of the cold will still lift out. time to time over the
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weekend will be down to 20 below over the weekend. tomorrow night the temperatures rise above freezing i just want to show you a wider picture of what the wind chills will be like to our morning and tomorrow afternoon this cold air is pretty widespread. here is how this snow flurry producing clouds will work today look at the band's going into michigan tonight. look as some of these totals now 8.6 in. crandell is at 7.8 in.. holland has had 5 in. of snow on the update we will spend some time showing you this snow coming tonight tonight, passing flurries and a
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few snow showers the clouds are breaking late-night which should facilitate even more rapid cooling of. . next the girlfriend
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hoax involving te'o gets even stranger. and why some social clubs in illinois say that the state is not playing fair when it comes to video gaming. [ bells jingle ] [ cash register dings ] [ male announcer ] wow. a brave choice. okay, focus. think courage. think shaun white. think how perfect they'll be for outdoor crafts. mr. white. [ male announcer ] they're good for circulation. plus, they're totally practical. yeah, freedom. scan me. stride on, pale-legged, short-shorts guy. ♪ ♪
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request denied, video game machines have been shut out. now some clubs fear that they may not be able to see it's hard to imagine that these video gaming machines could be the difference between game over or not. they generate thousand dollars a month in revenue they are hoping that by this time they will step up. video gaming is so far i haven't katiaa hit. in december along $23 million statewide were pumped into those machines the state
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gets 1.8 million of that they're hoping to generate a lot more which is why the folks at the luxembourg club in aurora cannot understand what is going on. all round since 1890 the club is home to a downstairs bar sponsors of little league, fundraisers one of about 20 social clubs in or aurora alone i would say it's probably about 30 percent of what we need to survive. in august today along with everyone else waiting for the illinois gaming board which began overseeing them to ok bringing them back in. there is a glitch that dates back to springfield when the legislation was written social clubs were not specifically included, military clubs were. right now the gaming board interpret that to me no machines. there's no reason that three guys could get a license go into a garage and
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apply for a machine and call it a social club, well maybe they could but they haven't been in business for 110 years so give us a break! >> it's affecting all of us. >> hundreds of them what legislators say about it... knowing the impact that they have on her district. in the meantime they have to find a way to stay afloat bacon manager for about a month and a half they are optimistic that something will eventually get done. i can tell you that it didn't come up today in springfield. the gaming
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board could take up this issue once again. we generate about 30 percent of the revenue to keep these places open through the use these video game machines. a former schaumburg police officer brave enough to allegedly still cash in drugs from drug dealers. the father
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for the moment snows are coming down some areas have six dead 8 in. already down there. we will get flurries tomorrow we rounded off the snow forecast. high pressure tomorrow but you can see the low coming out of the dakotas.
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meat grinder in that big tent. illinois led by 10 at the intermission. 70 percent in the second half. stumbling inside he finds brandon dawson watch him up to the big jim. michigan state wins 80-75. 16 and seven overall the bulls get back to action in brooklyn and the next black hawks game is tomorrow. crawford had another good game in the case. that will score for the wild. minnesota wins its 3-
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2. we're doing a great job of putting the last game behind us and getting ready for the next one we have to take one game at a time we are on a long road trip right now we can not get too far ahead we especially cannot dissatisfied if we win a game or two. we have to make it even tougher for the team to get us. he is wrapping up practice the victor in the arm of the underappreciated joe aflack go he seems to understand why he has been overlooked. this team has had such a great defense for so many years. that is what we are known for us guys on the offensive
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side we don't have any problem with that but we know in order to win football games we have to go out there and do our job. he set his whole career he has done that again this year in a high- pressure situation. brandon marshall recovering from hip surgery he should be ready for training camp part of a program at the bridewell elementary school marshall very high it seems that he can bring the team together. it is a win-win, it is a no-brainer whenever you get a chance to get back to the community that gives to you so much you have to do it it seems like he has the ability to bring an entire room together. when you have another like him that is like him that can bring some many different egos and talents
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together is says a lot and i think it's a recipe for success. watch what happened to phil mickelson at the opening round. 59 in the final hole he thought he had it... nicholson thought that he had it. for the caddy fell down in fact. he has a four shot lead. that is it for us.
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